The Washington critic., 1887-04-07
roLIrroIANs. TAKE NOTICE,

stand taken by the conservative voters
Of that great city In favor of the public
peace and safety as against riotous vic.
lation--in favor Of the rights of prop.
Crty as against Socialistic invasion
enhances the security of American
citizenship, not only there, but through.
out the length aud breadth of the land
The elections in Milwaukee, where
similar Issues were partially, If not so
sharply, involved, anil In 81. Louis,
where similar element pi danger cX
listed, though not 81 dangerously dc.
velopcd, went in about the same way
and thus contributed To the same whole.
some end.
Law abiding citizens everywhere feel
rcassured by this rebukc of the spirit
of anarchy and lAwles.ncss. and are
inspired with fresh confidence that,
come whatever other chhnges may, the
free institutions OF the c)uutry and the
franchises of the Constitution are to he
maintained intact
Let not the politicians, howcver-ihe
leaders of the two great parties that are
now massing thel, forces for the
coming Presidential c1ntcst--permit
themselves to be deceived by these
events. The defeat of Socialism by
no means implies the defeat of the
Labor organizations. 1t must be borne
In mind that the rout of the latter in
Chicago, sweeping as 1t was, was
wholly due to their unfortunate identi.
tlcation with elements that public SEN
,iment was unable to tolerate, that the
offended law had condemned and that
the people had sworn solemn vow to
exterminate as q political force. The
Labor men see 1t now and acknowledge
1t. Many Of them saw 1t in advance
and refused 10 support their own
ticket. What was understood to be a
prepledged majority of $4,000 for their
candidate was cut down to 92,0)0.
Think not that this humiliating lesson
will go unheeded or that the Labor
party will hereafter consent to such
another fatal meSdllidRce.
In Cincinnati, on the other hand,
where the election was run on square
party lines, where Socialism was
wholly eliminated as factor of the
contest, where the fate of the Anarch-
lists now under sentence of death at
Chicago was uufelt and unknown as an
issue, where the red illi Heated from
TO polling place and Ter prevailed
10 most remarkable degree for city
of Cinclnnali's disotderly anteccdcnts,
the result was startling revelation
and of a wholly different character.
NotsOnly was the Democracy buried
almost out Of sight, but the Republi.
cans, with all their bolsied strength and
high hopes of victory, were pressed
close to the verge ot defeat. The cleo
tion of their candidate for Mayor. by
barely six hundred majority was vir-
tuai defeat. 1t showed tue opposition
10 be active, aggressive, disciplined and
organized as never before. 1t also
showed that the German element of the
Republican party, hitherto and for so
many years Invariably 10 be depended
on, had broken its hold at ist and Is no
longer so much an element of strength
as ofweakness. The time may not be
far distant when the Irish element,
through the operation of precisely the
same causes may serve the Democratic
party In the same way. Whenever the
Labor vote of Boston, for instance,
comes within six hundred of overtop.
ping the Democratic vote, all of the old
political signs and symbols and shibbo-
leths will have become obsolete and of
no further political virtue.
1t will be well for Democrats and Re.
Iublicans alike to be setting their
] ouses in order against the coming
of the new dispensation, or at least
against the chances of Its coming.
THERE were three tickets In the field
1t yesterdays State election In Rhode
Island: Republican, Democratic and
Prohibition, and the result, which will
lie something of an astonisher to the
outside world, Is the election of John
W, Davis, the Democratic candidate
for Governor. Those familiar with the
inside politics of the State predicted
just what has happened. and the revolt
Of the Providence JouTudl showed that
the Republican party was in the throes
Of serious revolution. The result is
rebuke 10 bosslsm, in the person of
William II. Brayton, late postmaster of
Providence and present Chief of State
Police, that means the permanent re-
tirement OF the present regime from
power.
JEFFERSON DAVIS made set speech
at New Orleans yesterday, on occasion
of the unveillng of the Albert Sidney
Johnston statue. aqd paid higt
tribute to the valor Virtues Of thai
distinguished Con .ie officer. A
letter was also read from President
Cleveland, approving the erection OF
the statue as llttiAg testimony to "the
affection and respect in which the
memory of General Johnston Is held by
his comrades of the civil war" and
recognizing in the patriotic sentiment,
of the letter inviting him to be present
a proof that under present conditions
every American citizen may share In
the pride inspired by an illustration oI
the traits that have ennobled American
character"
IT APPEARs that Mr.. w, Percy
Tnghman, late Vice. Consul. Genera
OF the United States at Berlin, young
man of good stock and hitherto faiI
reputation, has been conducting him
self abroad In o manner highly un-